JOHN PAUL II : MAN OF HISTORY

Book ID/图书代码： 03540006B02479

English Summary/英文概要： The response to John Paul II’s death in the spring of 2005 surprised even the leaders of the Catholic Church; never before had so many millions come to Rome to pay their respects to a dead Pope. The record-breaking crowds were a fitting end to a pontificate that had been setting new records for a quarter of a century. Edward Stourton attempts to make sense of a remarkable life, and to rescue John Paul the man from the myths that have grown up around the cult of John Paul the Great. To many of his admirers he became a plaster-caste saint, and to many of his detractors he was an irredeemably wicked old man in a funny white suit. The reality is an infinitely more complex and compelling story. Karol Wojtyla was a passionate man of extraordinary vision and determination, but he could also be stubborn, ill-tempered, and sometimes showed woeful judgements about those he gathered around him. He was a bundle of paradoxes; a high intellectual who also believed in peasant cults, a moral conservative but a social radical, a champion of freedom who cracked down on dissent within the Church, the most modern of popes in the way he conveyed his message but the most traditional in his ideas. His life was touched by the great currents of the history of the twentieth century; at first hand he saw war, Nazi occupation and eastern Europe’s submission to Stalinism. That history formed him, and explains much about the way he ran the Church. And he formed history in return, playing a pivotal role in the collapse of communism and leaving such a powerful mark on the Church that every modern debate about Catholicism comes back to his legacy. There was a final paradox at the heart of this giant of our times; John Paul was a world-class celebrity, and he was probably seen by more people than any other human being had ever been before, yet his own life was a curiously lonely one; he was orphaned when he was young, cut off from friendship by his high office, and when he died there was not a single member of his close family to say farewell. His last testament revealed that he had almost no personal possessions at all. A wonderfully, insightful, involving and rewarding look at the life of a man who was not only one of the most important men of the last thirty years of the 20th century but who became, in his last days, a living symbol of the Christian response to suffering and an inspiration to billions.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 教皇約翰•保羅因一系列悖論而聞名於世，他蔑視每一個試圖把他放在意識形態的框框的言論，同樣他也令他的崇拜者和反對者感到困惑不解。
愛德華•斯托頓揭示了約翰•保羅的生活、他的信仰、他的行為和在文中所述的最終他成為20世紀和21世紀，天主教教皇的過程。
這是一部內容精彩的、富有深刻見地的，值得一探的，一位在20世紀過去30年裏，一位舉世矚目的男人的一生，在他最後的歲月裏，一位現實版的基督教意的生動象徵是如何應對苦難和激勵了數十億信眾的。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 愛德華•斯托頓是英國廣播公司，包括《一個世界》，《週末世界》，《周日》和《分析》的四臺節目主持人，他還是《今日》節目十年的定期撰稿人和一位主要的主持人。他曾主持過幾個備受矚目的電視和電臺新聞時事節目，還為許多知名報紙和雜誌撰寫過評論。 1957年生於尼日利亞，在劍橋大學受教，他是《絕對真理(1998年)》，《聖保羅的腳步(2004年)》，《保羅：亦真亦幻(2005年)》，《約翰•保羅二世：一個男人的歷史(2006年)》，和《這是電腦世界：生活在政治立場正確的土地意味着什麼(2008年)》。

Edward Stourton is a Presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme and the weekly religious affairs programme, Sunday. He has been involved in news broadcasting since 1983, working for Channel Four News as their Washington Correspondent, the BBC as their Paris Correspondent and ITN as Diplomatic Editor. He presented the One O’clock News for the BBC for six years from 1993 before

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